Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them are a Russian Jew , who fled his native land after avenging the murder of his father , and the son of a poor Italian farmer . |
| 2 | So do n't forget the one thousand who do n't think any of them are a good team , add all those up and that will give you a fourth equation . |
| 3 | Revisited ’ has only got about 15 minutes of decent songs — and eight of them are a live version of The Velvet Underground 's ‘ What Goes On ? ’ which is n't psychedelic at all , really . |
| 4 | and course with that Ron on the , of course you know , he tells jokes and some of them are a little bit crude , but , they take all in good part , you know , I said to dad I said you do n't always , he 's that dry |
| 5 | For example , the granites and the psammitic lithologies of the Central Highland Division and the Grampian Group are low in magnesium , copper , cobalt and ( to a lesser extent ) calcium , and soils developed on them are an inadequate buffer against acid rain — a potential threat to freshwater fisheries in the area . |
| 6 | For such areas the routeways traversed to reach them are an integral part of the attraction of the resource and need to be included in assessment . |
| 7 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 8 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 9 | Mark Calcavecchia and I are a good team ; we can relax with each other — that 's the key . " |
| 10 | PAMELA : Why , Mrs. Jewkes , there can be only one reason , which is that I am a sad fool ! |
| 11 | I mean I am a mere officer who advises the Council , Bill , as you know . |
| 12 | ‘ You must not imagine that I am a pure woman . |
| 13 | I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it . |
| 14 | SIR — I am a former pupil of Summerhill School at Leiston , Suffolk ( television review , March 31 ) . |
| 15 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 16 | I am a logical man , Mr. Gerrard , accustomed to presenting material in a concise , ordered and intelligible manner . |
| 17 | I am a working mother but the children rarely see me working . |
| 18 | ‘ I am a strange mixture of appearing to be a pleasant guy but behind it all I am pretty hard and often grumpy . |
| 19 | ‘ I am a poor widow . |
| 20 | I am a poor widow . |
| 21 | I am a poor widow . |
| 22 | I am a poor widow , |
| 23 | ‘ I am a poor orphan boy . |
| 24 | I am a poor Indian . |
| 25 | I am a poor scholar . |
| 26 | Dr Jaffery frowned : ‘ I am a simple man . |
| 27 | ‘ We shall walk barefoot and dusty and alone and suffer many things , and within our sufferings we shall find the pearl of great price , the untarnished joy , the secret treasure , and we shall find it because he is a pure saint and the bravest man in the world and I am a simple singer robed in humility , one risen from the dead ’ |
| 28 | He says : ‘ I am a simple guy . |
| 29 | I am a firm believer in extending higher education and in preserving the humanities , by all possible means , against technologico-Benthamite attacks . |
| 30 | ‘ It is a relatively new technique and a lot of people have been sceptical about it but I am a firm believer in the method , ’ he said . |